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7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. Ho w was Butch wax used ?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust

9. Before in-line skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a With clamps, tightened by a skate key
b Woven straps that crossed the foot
c. Long pieces of twine

10 As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts
b. Ask Mom
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's-50's
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Carolin e Kenn edy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek
b What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summer fallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos

Got them all, but I'm a trivia buff! The one about nylons or whatever came up in an astronomy group off topic!
My mother kept everything, so we had a sprinkler top you could put in a pop bottle. She had a steam iron, but it didn't spray. We also had a thing called an arrowhead that you inserted in a curtainrod so the gathers or the casing didn't get hung up on the rough edge of the rod. I wouldn't mind having one of those, today.
Weezy

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From: DorothyL

Date: 02-03-2007, 10:30 AM (6 of 27)

18 here and some were good guesses ----
OK, a couple were good guesses the rest I remembered.
Dorothy

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From: material_pakrat

Date: 02-03-2007, 10:51 AM (7 of 27)

I got 13, so I guess I will have to claim the handicap. But it was also a bit Americanised, so I think I did pretty well for an Aussie. I dont think there is anywhere except the alps that has the milk freezing. Our problem as a kid was getting hold of it before it went sour.

Cheers, Soph.

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From: HeyJudee

Date: 02-03-2007, 11:35 AM (8 of 27)

Ha Ha...I'm not quite dirt yet...but 16 makes me close I guess. I got the leg painting right cause I heard stories from my godmother about painting her legs with "gravy drippings" during the war and getting on a bus and a dog started licking her legs!!!

Pakrat...in the Great White North milk will freeze in the winter!

TTFN from Judy

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From: Magot

Date: 02-03-2007, 03:40 PM (9 of 27)

Soph I only got 13 as well so I must be a young 50!!!

Milk freezes in the UK too you know, at least it did when I was a kid before global warming! Now we all buy it from the supermarket (the milkman always gets to us after breakfast so it goes off left out all day)

I had no idea about the coke bottle thing but I did have a big butterfly key on the bottom of my skates.

love and kisses, JanGuts-R-UsCells a SpecialityDNA to order.

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From: Bama

Date: 02-03-2007, 05:25 PM (10 of 27)

Okay, I got 17 right. Some of them only because I've heard mother and grandmother talk about them. I do remember several of them like green stamps, wax bottles and Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

I paid my rent through my A levels thanks to them ( I was in digs at 17)

love and kisses, JanGuts-R-UsCells a SpecialityDNA to order.

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From: lendube

Date: 02-03-2007, 06:12 PM (12 of 27)

I got 17. Educated guesses a lot of them.

I still have a cookbook from saving Blue Chip Stamps. I remember the gas stations would give out reams of those and the Green Stamps.

I also vividly remember going to the local fire station in the early '60's where everyone would receive a sugar cube infused with a polio vaccine.

The story in my family goes that as I (think I was 5) was sucking on the cube and walking away from the fire station looked up at my Mom and said, "I feel better already!"

Lennie

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From: vickki

Date: 02-03-2007, 06:16 PM (13 of 27)

I got 15,guessed at 13....and milk freezes here as well so does humans.I'll just lookin for a place to drop....Burr

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From: Sancin

Date: 02-03-2007, 07:11 PM (14 of 27)

Lennie, do you know that after the fact they discovered that by immunizing via sugar cube one child in the family the other's became immunized due to how it was spread.

Boy I sure remember the days before polio immunization. Several people in our small town developed polio and scared everyone. As I had already had Rheumatic fever my mother was particularly strick. No swimming in public pools, no running through lawn sprinklers were ones that really affected my life, but as I lived on an inlet I was able to swim directly in the salt water. If mother only knew the risks we took swimming around log booms!!

*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."

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From: lendube

Date: 02-03-2007, 08:12 PM (15 of 27)

Nancy, I'm not sure what you mean.

You mean if one child in the family ate the (polio) sugar cube the other kids were protected also???? How can that be??

Sorry, Lennie

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From: Sancin

Date: 02-04-2007, 01:55 AM (16 of 27)

Because it is a live virus (bacteria or ameba- can't recall) and small particles became airborne and inhaled by others. Polio is spread via the airways and also the gi tract, thus different beginning symptoms. Also some children saved the sugar cube to take at home. I was told this when administering the sugar cubes to ensure we watched the children ingest it in front of us. A practice that stuck with me my entire career. You wouldn't believe what shows up in bed linens or under the beds. Maybe was an urban fable but was a long time ago so can't check. But my medical director told me and in those days no nurse ever questioned a doctor. Times do change. It has been awhile, but last time I gave it it was liquid by spoon. Don't know know now how it is given, or if it even is routine. There were 2 types of vaccine -Salk and Sabine. Maybe one of you younguns know - but doubt you have seen much polio or sugar cube form immunization.

*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."

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From: MotherInLaw

Date: 02-04-2007, 02:26 AM (17 of 27)

I got 17 right. I thought Small Pox was the dreaded disease. I forgot about Polio, the vaccine was given to us for the first time in around the 5th grade I think. I also missed the Taxi one and the Howdy Doody princess. I didn't like Howdy Doody. But I remember my Mom using the cap to sprinkle the clothes so she could iron them. That too me back quite a ways.

I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.

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From: lendube

Date: 02-04-2007, 01:02 PM (18 of 27)

Thanks, Nancy.

Poor doctors, they used to all be on pedestals. Not any more. I have to always remind my mother (76) to question the dr.s if she feels she needs to. She's gotten better.

Lennie

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From: DorothyL

Date: 02-04-2007, 01:24 PM (19 of 27)

I just remember how that sugar cube was so much nicer than the shots.
Dorothy

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From: Pudge99

Date: 02-04-2007, 02:31 PM (20 of 27)

Yes they are still giving the polio vaccine. Last of my kids that got it got a dead version injected into their poor fleshy leg. Oldest daughter got the live oral variety. I hated that because they would give it to her before the shots and then say she can't have anything in her mouth for 30 minutes to and hour, so no pacifier after the shots. I just had to hear her scream until she cried herself out. I think she had to get three doses and everytime I begged them to do the shots first but they refused. Then they would wonder why I couldn't calm her after the shots. UUGH!

My two kids (10 & 4) had the oral sabin vaccine for polio. I was told that they weren't to come in contact with anyone who wasn't immunised for awhile after, but I cant remember how long for. But I know that they could have a pacifier and drink pretty much straight afterwards. My youngest actually had all of her immunisations while I was feeding her - was only a problem when she had teeth!

Cheers, Soph.

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From: Bama

Date: 02-04-2007, 04:03 PM (22 of 27)

My kids got the Polio vaccine by drops.
I have heard (don't know if it is true) that when a child is given the chicken pox vaccine, that older people can get shingles if exposed to them, such as in changing diapers.

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From: lendube

Date: 02-04-2007, 05:07 PM (23 of 27)

It's true Bams (typo but I like it ).

You don't have to be old to get shingles. My nephew got it at 11. Luckily it was a mild case.

My kids got the polio drops as well. This was in '81 and '82. They got MMR's but never got the chicken pox shots. They got chicken pox instead!

Boy, I remember having the mumps twice (one side at a time), regular measles, chicken pox, having my tonsils out and my adenoids out twice.

How many here have a scar on the arm from the tb test???? Those must have been nasty to leave such a scar on everyone but I don't remember getting it. I do have the scar though.

Lennie

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From: Bama

Date: 02-04-2007, 10:19 PM (24 of 27)

I don't have that scar. My oldest sister does. My mom said that they started doing the test (or whatever it was) different right before I was born. Some of my friends my age have it tho.

btw, I like Bams too.

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From: Pudge99

Date: 02-05-2007, 01:32 PM (25 of 27)

If you all are talking about the scar on your upper arm that was a smallpox vaccine. TB tests are done on the inside of your forearm. Nasty things both of them.

Oh, Gina, you're right. At first I thought tetanus, than tb but now I know you're right.

Do you remember how those tests were done to leave such scars?

Lennie

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From: Pudge99

Date: 02-05-2007, 02:16 PM (27 of 27)

I am lucky enough to not have had one, but I did find that if you Google "vaccination scar" you can find some really detailed information. It talked about how there were actually several injections in that circle.